The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-09-29
Communicated.

That ''ornery fellow who claims
to be the editor and proprietor Of
the Howard County Times, has in
his paper Of last week, again indulg-
ed in his vile and libellous personal
ties. This time he attacks with per-
sonal and lying malice, DR.. H. c.
Price a physician, pharmacist and
druggist OF Cresco, a twenty five year
resident of this county; who as a
gentleman, scholar and citizen, is far
above and beyond the reach Of
Smiths vile calumnies. The occasion
of these attacks by Smith, the editor
is a criminal prosecution Of the Dr.,
a. pharmacist i'm case tried ut
our last term of the District Court.
Look at this quotation from Smiths
paper. He price, has been one
OF the most defiant aud successful
violators Of the prohibitory and phar-
macy laws in the state
Everybody here knows that this
statement is q malicious falsehood
Smith knows it, but he had person.
al newspaper controversy with Price
some ten years ago, in which he was
badly worsted, and Smith holds NAL
ice as old rags hold infection. DR..
Price has been in business here as q
Drugg list for over twenty years, and
never but once before has he been
arraigned for violation of the phar-
macy law, and then the cause was at
one dismissed by the court without
submission to the jury.
But Smith further says: $50 per-
sistently and impudently has he de-
fed the laws, he has forfeited the
respect and sympathy Of all law
abiding citizens" Well, there are a
good many citizens around here,
most of them are ''law-abiding" citi=
zens, and scores of them are willing
to certify that this statement is vilely
false, and that DR.. Price has In an
eminent degree, the confidence and
respect of all law-abiding citizens.
We have several druggists in Ores.
co, all Of them We believe have phar-
macist commissions, and it is fact
well known to Smith that all Of them
are noble, upright, worthy men, they
are all men OF good character and
have each and all earned by many
years of honest and patient business
toll, the respect honor and confidence
OF our community. And in all these
attributes of good character DIR
Price is the equal and the peer Of
the others.
The cases in court against DR.,
Price which are the pretended oc.
casion Of smit...'. pop-gun shots, have
been appealed to the suprel..A cour'
of the state. The defence rests upon
complex questions of law, about
which Smith knows no more than he
does of stars which glisten in the well
of truth. When the state supreme
court shall have passed upon the
questions involved, Mr.. Smith will
have chance to fire his little gun ut
that august body.
There would be something wanting
in our social economy if such base
less, heartless accusations here made
by this editor should be allowed to
pass unchallenged.
An excellent matron cured her boy
of swearing, by forcibly swabbing
out his mouth after his sacrilegious
words. So should this petulent edi-
tor thoroughly wash his slanderous
tongue, Danish from his paper his
scrubbed malice, and cleanse his heart
Of that perilous venom of hatred and
Observation-Disclosures, which shames
humanity, and lowers the proud po-
sition of journalist to the level of the
vilest and most bestial blackguard-
ism